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MOHLER, JOHANN ADAM (1796—1838)

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MOHLER, JOHANN See also:ADAM (1796—1838) , See also:German theologian, was See also:born at Igersheim in See also:Wurttemberg on the 6th of May 1796, and after studying See also:philosophy and See also:theology in the See also:lyceum at See also:Ellwangen, entered the university of See also:Tubingen in 1817. Ordained to the priesthood in 1819, he was appointed to a curacy at Riedlingen, but speedily returned as " repetent " to Tubingen, where he became privatdozent in 1822, extraordinary See also:professor of theology in 1826 and See also:ordinary professor in 1828. His lectures See also:drew large audiences, including many Protestants. The controversies excited by his Symbolik (1832) proved so unpleasant that in 1835 he accepted a See also:call to the university of See also:Munich. In 1838 he was appointed to the deanery of Wiirzburg, but died shortly afterwards (See also:April 12, 1838). Mohler wrote See also:Die Einheit in der Kirche See also:oder See also:des Prinzip des Katholicismus (Tubingen, 1825) ; See also:Athanasius der See also:Grosse u. d. Kirche seiner Zeit (2 vols., See also:Mainz, 1827) ; Symbolik, oder Darstellung der dogmatischen Gegensdtze der Katholiken u. Protestanten nach ihren offentlichen Bekenntnissschriften (Mainz, 1832; 8th ed., 1871–1872; Eng. trans. by J. B. See also:Robertson, 1843); and Neue Untersuchungen der Lehrgegensdtze zwischen den Katholiken u. Protestanten (1834). His Gesammelte Schriften u.

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Dollinger in 1839; his Patrologie by Reithmayr, also in 1839; and a Biographie by B. Worner was published at See also:Regensburg in 1866. It is with the Symbolik that his name is chiefly associated; the See also:interest excited by it in See also:Protestant circles is shown by the fact that within two years of its See also:appearance it had elicited three replies of considerable Importance, those namely of F. C. See also:Baur, P. K. See also:Marheineke and C. J. See also:Nitzsch. But, although characterized by learning and acuteness, as well as by considerable breadth of spiritual sympathy, it cannot be said to have been accepted by Catholics themselves as embodying an accurate See also:objective view of the actual See also:doctrine of their See also:church. The liberal school of thought of which Mohler was a prominent exponent was discouraged in See also:official circles, while Protestants, on the other See also:hand, complain that the author failed to grasp thoroughly the significance of the See also:Reformation as a See also:great See also:movement in the spiritual See also:history of mankind, while needlessly dwelling on the doctrinal shortcomings, inconsistencies and contradictions of its leaders.

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